Every morning I travel to work through an underpass that allows safe passage (Safe between the hours of 8am and 10pm anyway) between one side of the busy main road and the other. Every morning there is a busker at the bottom of the steps leading down to my corner of the underpass. There are two buskers who busk there (I'm not sure how they arrange it, they must have a rota or something) one busker (and we'll call him Mr. Entrepreneurial busker) makes a lot of effort; he has a special pot to throw money in, he's got a nicely written sign, he's even got CDs he can for sale (£3 quid). He always asks people politely when they come past for some money and always says thank you and nods his head at people, even if they don't give him anything. The other busker (and we'll call him Mr. Slacker busker) just has a coat that he puts on the floor. He ignores everyone and most of the time faces the wall, if you throw money on his coat he'll ignore you and carry on playing.
Mr. Entrepreneurial busker is also the worst guitar player I have ever heard. The entire time I was in hearing of him this morning he only played two notes, one after the other. Okay so he did incorporate other sounds into it, like the sounds of strings twanging badly, and him hitting the guitar neck with his hand, but that doesn't really count. I'm tempted to buy one of his CDs just to hear how truely awful it is.
Slacker busker on the other hand, is amazing. I've never heard him attempt a cover version (at least of anything I know) but everything he plays is catchy and sounds awesome. If he had a CD I'd buy it in a second.
The moral of this story? Rubbish buskers can make money too. The British public as a whole has no decent music taste.
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I knew the latter statement already :)